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b.  E.  A. — B.  S.  29.  Issued  August  14,  1919. 

United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

BUREAU  OF  BIOLOGICAL  SURVEY. 
E.  W.  Nelson,  Chtef  of  Bureau. 


SERVICE  AND  REGULATORY  ANNOUNCEMENTS. 


AMENDMENTS    TO    THE   MIGRATORY    BIRD    TREATY    ACT 
REGULATIONS. 

BY  THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA,  A  PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas,  The  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  pursuant  to  the  authority 
contained  in  Section  three  of  the  Migratory  Bird  Treaty  Act  (40 
Stat.,  755),  has  submitted  to  me  for  approval  Regulations,  amenda- 
tory of  the  Regulations  approved  and  proclaimed  July  31,  1918, 
which  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  has  determined  to  be  suitable 
amendatory  Regulations  permitting  and  governing  the  hunting,  tak- 
ing, capture,  killing,  possession,  sale,  purchase,  shipment,  transporta- 
tion, carriage,  and  export  of  said  birds  and  parts  thereof  and  their 
nests  and  eggs,  which  said  amendments  are  as  follows : 

REGULATION  3.— MEANS  BY  WHICH  MIGRATORY  GAME  BIRDS  MAY  BE  TAKEN. 

Regulation  3  is  amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

The  migratory  game  birds  specified  in  Regulation  4  hereof  may  be  taken 
during  the  open  season  with  a  gun  only,  not  larger  than  number  10  gauge,  fired 
from  the  shoulder,  except  as  specifically  permitted  by  Regulations  7,  8,  9,  and 
10  hereof:  they  may  be  taken  during  the  open  season  from  the  land  and  water, 
from  a  blind  or  floating  device  (other  than  an  airplane,  powerboat,  sailboat, 
any  boat  under  sail,  or  any  floating  device  towed  by  powerboat,  or  sailboat), 
with  the  aid  of  a  dog,  and  the  use  of  decoys. 

REGULATION    4.— OPEN    SEASONS    ON    AND    POSSESSION    OF    CERTAIN    MIGRATORY 

GAME   BIRDS. 

Regulation  4,  subtitle  "  Doves ",  is  amended  so  as  to  read  as 
follows : 

Doves. — The  open  seasons  for  mourning  doves  shall  be  as  follows : 
In    Delaware,    Maryland.    Virginia,    Tennessee,    Kentucky,    Ohio,    Indiana, 
Illinois,  Nebraska,  Kansas.  Missouri,  Arkansas,  Oklahoma,  Texas.  New  Mexico, 
Colorado,    Utah,    Arizona,    California,    Nevada.    Idaho,    and    Oregon    the    open 

season  shall  be  from  September  1  to  December  15 ; 

In  North  Carolina.  Mississippi,  and  Louisiana  the  open,  sea^bir^hit^-be  from 
September  16  to  December  31 ;  and  . noa.lMENT^-PEPr . 


In  South  Carolina,  Gi  irgia,  Florida,  and  Alabama  the  open  season,  shall 
from  October  16  to  January  31. 
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REGULATION  5.— BAG   LIMITS   ON   CERTAIN   MIGRATORY   GAME   BIRDS. 

Regulation  5  is  amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

A  person  may  take  in  any  one  day  during  the  open  seasons  prescribed  therefor 
in  Regulation  4  not  to  exceed  the  following  numbers  of  migratory  game  birds : 

Ducks  {except  wood-duck  and  eider  ducks). — Twenty-five  in  the  aggregate  of 
all  kinds. 

Geese. — Eight  in  the  aggregate  of  all  kinds. 

Brant. — Eight. 

Mails,  coot,  and  gallinules  (except  sora). — Twenty-five  in  the  aggregate  of 
all  kinds. 

Sora.— Fifty. 

Black-bellied  and  golden  plovers  and  greater  and  lesser  yellow-legs. — Fifteen 
in  the  aggregate  of  all  kinds. 

Wilson  snipe,  or  jacksnipe. — Twenty-five. 

Woodcock. — Six. 

Doves   ( mourning ) . — Twenty-five. 

Now,  Therefore,  I,  Woodrow  Wilson,  President  of  the  United 
States  of  America,  do  hereby  approve  and  proclaim  the  foregoing 
amendatory  regulations. 

In  witness  whereof,  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  caused  the 
seal  of  the  United  States  of  America  to  be  affixed. 

Done  in  the  District  of  Columbia,  this  28th  day  of  July,  in  the 
year  of  our  Lord  One  Thousand  Nine  Hundred  and  Nineteen  and 
of  the  Independence  of  the  United  States  of  America  the  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Fourth. 

[seal.]  Woodrow  Wilson. 

By  the  President: 

Robert  Lansing, 

Secretary  of  /State. 


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